Yesterday, Taiwanese indie developer Red Candle Games announced that Devotion . The game would have been sold for the low price of $16.99, which frankly would have been ✅a steal foওr the psychological horror game.
And then it kinda all went to hell.
Once news of Devotion’s rerelease became widespread, GOG started receiving “” about the controversial title. GOG never said what those messages contained, but it likely was more the volume of those messages rather than the content that spooked t🌠hem off.
Hours after Red Candle made the initial announcement, GOG corrected them by saying “we have decided not to🍌 list the game in our store.”
Why the controversy? Devotion originally contained a derogatory reference to Chinese President Xi Jinping which has been banned in China since 2018. When the game first tried to release on Steam last February, that reference engendered quite a bit of hate from Steam’s Chinese community. So much that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Steam eventually delisted Devotion and issued an apology.
R🧔ed Candle Games has since offered its own apology, saying that the reference was supposed to be a placeholder and was never intended to be in the final release of the game. It’s since been removed, but Steam refuses to put Devotion back on its storefront.
GOG isn’t nearly as large as Steam in terms of users, but it’s at least some way for Red Candle Games to get De🦩votion back out there. Unfortunately, the me𝓀re mention of the game is enough to get any digital storefront brigaded by Chinese nationalists.
Things may look pretty bleak for Red Candle Games, 🦹but the Taiwanese deve💫loper isn’t giving up yet.
“For the players looking forward to Devotion's re-release, please accept our most since♔re apology,” the developer wrote. “This is a difficult predicament to overcome, but we won't stop stri♏ving."
to Red Candle that will almost surely host Devotion is . The indie specialist store already hosts and so is unlikely to bow 🅘to🎐 Chinese pressure.
Source: Red Candle Games